VOL. XL

No. 37

15-September-1997

KUWAIT

Kuwait Publishes Conservative Budget While Tax Plans Are Shelved For The Moment

On 8 September the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Mr. Abd al-Aziz al-Dakhil,brought to an end the current round of speculation that personal income taxes would beintroduced in Kuwait. Mr. Dakhil told the official news agency that, contrary to reportscarried in local papers, the government had not forwarded the draft text of a taxation lawto the National Assembly for...